TO this day, Paul Feeney remembers so much about his beloved late brother, Chris.

The fact that nothing was too much trouble for him. The fact that he went out of his way to help others less fortunate than himself. The fact that he gave thousands of hours volunteering in India, New Orleans, Mexico, Haiti and Sri Lanka.

Sadly, it was in Sri Lanka where Chris met his untimely death, aged just 43, in May 2012. But his caring work lives on - and now Paul has taken over the reins of the charity and is carrying it on in his memory. The Sunny-Sid3up charity can be found in a shop unit on Govan Road.

Chris initially worked as nursing assistant at Leverndale Hospital, where his mum Hilda, his sister and sisters-in-law have all worked.

He then spent time in the retail trade but, fancying the idea of being his own boss, built up a successful ice-cream-van business in Pollok.

His fundraising efforts were born when he raised £2,500 to buy an electric wheelchair for a young cerebral palsy sufferer in Barrhead.

Says Paul: “This young boy would come home from school and lie in a room at home until school the next day. He had no upper-body strength so he could not get around.

“Chris launched a campaign called ‘Don’t be stingy, gie’s yir gingies’, which involved collecting empty Irn-Bru bottles.

“This, and a sponsored climb of the Cobbler, in Arrochar, raised the money. Twenty years down the line, the young man has his own house, plays wheelchair football.”

The Boxing Day tsunami of 2004 would play a big part in Chris’ life.

"He started his charity just after the tsunami," says Paul. "He decided to want to help people who had been affected by it. He realised that this was his calling, and he met a few other people and went to work first of all in Haiti.

"He stayed there for a while then went out to Cambodia, then India and then to Sri Lanka.

"Sri Lanka was where he settled. That was where he knew the most work needed to be done after the tsunami.

"He based himself in rural parts of the country. In the rainy season, people were cooking in a kitchen where the water comes up to their shins. There no windows, no doors. At night-time they all sleep in the middle of the floor.

“There was very little in the way of education for children, either. Chris found this very distressing, so whenever he was back in Glasgow he would raise money any way he could, through race-nights, zip-slides, hill-climbing.”

Jim McMillan, from the Sunny Govan community radio station a few doors down from the charity shop, and who is sitting next to Paul in the Sunny-Sid3Up office, remembers Chris as “a great boy who always made a difference. He was always involved in something.”

Chris had it in mind to formally set up a charity in Glasgow to raise more funds, Jim said, and he came up with the name of Sunny-Sid3up. “We’d seen his photographs and read his stories all about the chicken farms he had created in Sri Lanka and the wee school he had been working on.

“I think the first things he bought out there were a motor-bike and a fax machine. Roads had been destroyed in the tsunami and he needed to get to the next village. The fax machine helped because people had lost their personal documents in the tsunami.”

Paul, who himself is a builder to trade, says: “There was no hospital where he was, so he built on. It was basic - just four walls and a tin roof. He built a maternity unit the same way, too - the women had just been lying on the ground.

“He would raise money back here and go out there again and use the money to employ local builders and tradesmen to get people’s houses up above the water level.

“Sadly for us, however,” he adds, “Chris died almost four years ago, in Sri Lanka. He was on a bus on his way to the airport to do a fundraiser when he was taken ill with a heart attack and an aneurysm.”

The bus had to continue to the airport, so, along with a friend, Chris was taken off the bus and left on a pavement to await treatment. The ambulance took five hours to arrive, but by then it was too late.

Paul has recently reinstated one of his brother's original fundraising ideas. Barrs’ recent decision to scrap the 30p cashback on returned glass bottles prompted Paul to bring back the 'gingies' campaign..

A local band, the Girobabies, wrote a jingle for the campaign. And Paul managed to raise £840, thanks in part to a huge donation of 1,500 Irn Bru bottles from Beattie Demolition, of Kilsyth.

The money has been divided up between, and presented, to two organisations - Glasgow City Mission, to buy scarves, hats, gloves and sleeping bags for homeless people, and Govan Junior Pipe Band. “Chris was a piper,” says Paul, “and that was why I picked them out.”

At the foot of the 'Our story' page on the charity's website are the poignant words, 'In memory of Chris Feeney 17/04/67 - 14/05/12'. Nearly four years after his death, his fantastic work on behalf of others is being carried on.

* Sunny-Sid3Up, 982 Govan Road, Govan, tel 0141 258 2622. The shop can be followed on Facebook and Twitter. The Girobabies are one of the acts playing Barrowlands on March 5 for the benefit of the Clutha Trust.